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When you have to strain constantly to hear, you not only experience increased stress, but your memory fails. You would do poorly on memory tests. Dr. Arthur Wingfield, a professor of neuroscience, verified through research that the ability to remember data is compromised, even if people with untreated hearing loss catch and register speech. The brain’s resources, in the case of hearing loss, are stretched thin. He says that you will strain so hard to hear and understand what is being said that the storage of memories will fail. The brain’s resources for other things will be diminished with the extra effort to hear and understand speech.